This is the hilarious moment a motorist distracted by prostitutes crashes his car into a lamppost.

The girls had been standing outside the street in Archangel, a city in north-western Russia's Arkhangelsk Oblast region, wearing just their underwear and fishnet stockings.

In order to make sure motorists noticed them, one of the girls started to walk slowly over the zebra crossing, getting attention from passing motorists and prompting a second girl to join her, flaunting over the zebra crossing.

But one motorist in a Skoda who was so impressed by what he saw that he slammed on the brakes, and then sent his car into reverse to get a closer look, ending up the laughing stock after smashing into a huge lamppost.

The girl's antics were being videoed on a mobile phone by witness Cornelius Kruglov, who later uploaded the video onto the Russian social media website VKontakte.

He said: "I asked him how he was going to explain that to the insurance company, but he didn't seem keen to discuss the subject.

"So I uploaded the video to make sure they knew exactly what had happened when they eventually get the claim."